scholarly journals Transformations of the Emirati housing typologies. A survey on the trending urban condition and cultural clashes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Apostolos Kyriazis ◽  
Magdy Ibrahim ◽  
Ayesheh Benyas ◽  
Shaikha Almazrouei
Keyword(s):  
Urban Condition

Reclaiming the City as Commons. Learning from Latin American Housing Movements

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-153
Author(s):  
Stavros Stavrides
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Housing Conditions ◽  
Urban Living ◽  
City Life ◽  
Urban Condition ◽  
Collective Creativity ◽  
Urban Movements ◽  
The City

This paper explores a renewed problematization of contemporary metropolises' dynamics in the light of speci fic efforts to reclaim the city as commons. Building on Lefebvre's theorizations of the city's virtuality and comparing it to contemporary approaches to the urban condition that emphasize the potentialities of contemporary city-life, it suggests that urban commoning is unleashing the power of collective creativity and collaboration. Struggles to appropriate the city as a crucial milieu for sharing transforms parts of city and produces new patterns of urban living. Examples from Latin American urban movements focused on establishing emancipatory housing conditions are used to illustrate the transformative capabilities of urban commoning.

The Urban Condition

1985 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
Margaret T. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Urban Condition

scholarly journals The English City Riots of 2011, ‘Broken Britain’ and the Retreat into the Present

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Flint ◽  
Ryan Powell
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
Urban Condition ◽  
Norbert Elias ◽  
Urban Disorder

The responses to the English city riots of 2011 bear a remarkable resemblance to those of historical urban disorders in terms of the way in which they are framed by concerns over “moral decline”, “social malaise” and a “lack of self-restraint” among certain sections of the population. In this paper we draw on the work of Norbert Elias and take a long-term perspective in exploring historical precedents and parallels relating to urban disorder and anti-social behaviour. We reject the notion of “Broken Britain” and argue that a more “detached” perspective is necessary in order to appreciate that perceived crises of civilisation are ubiquitous to the urban condition. Through this historical analysis, framed by Elias’ theory of involvement and detachment, we present three key arguments. Firstly, that a ‘retreat into the present’ is evident among both policy discourse and social science in responding to contemporary urban disorder, giving rise to ahistorical accounts and the romanticisation of previous eras; secondly, that particular moral panics have always arisen, specifically focused upon young and working class populations and urban disorder; and, thirdly, that previous techniques of governance to control these populations were often far more similar to contemporary mechanisms than many commentaries suggest. We conclude by advocating a long-term, detached perspective in discerning historical precedents and their direct linkages to the present; and in identifying what is particular about today's concerns and responses relating to urban disorder.

The Urban Condition.

1964 ◽  
Vol 113 (5) ◽  
pp. 787
Author(s):  
Louis L. Lunsky
Keyword(s):  
Urban Condition

The Urban Condition; People and Policy in the Metropolis.

JAMA ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 186 (2) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Marjorie C. Meehan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Condition

scholarly journals The Effect of Animate-Inanimate Soundscapes and Framing on Environments’ Evaluation and Predicted Recreation Time

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (23) ◽  
pp. 9086
Author(s):  
Paulina Krzywicka ◽  
Katarzyna Byrka
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Natural Condition ◽  
Verbal Label ◽  
Recreational Activities ◽  
Online Study ◽  
Urban Condition

In this research, we investigated whether soundscapes’ animateness and the framing of environments affect participants’ assessment of the surroundings and their predicted recreation time. In an online study, we showed the participants six stimuli, each consisting of an animate or inanimate soundscape recording and of a verbal label of a natural or urban environment. We asked them to (a) imagine visiting the presented locations while mentally fatigued, in company or alone; (b) to visualize spending time there while engaged in recreational activities; and (c) to assess the environment and the predicted recreation time. We found that environments with animate soundscapes were rated as having a higher degree of naturalness and were favored in the urban condition. Environments with inanimate soundscapes, meanwhile, were preferred in the natural condition. Furthermore, natural-framed soundscapes were evaluated as having a higher degree of naturalness and were preferred over urban-framed soundscapes. Social context did not affect the results; however, we discovered the indirect effect of natural labels on the recreation time through the naturalness of the environments, both for the environments with animate and inanimate soundscapes. Overall, our findings demonstrate the influence of soundscapes’ animateness and framing on the settings’ evaluations and on recreation time.

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